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What is Cerebral Palsy?

Cerebral palsy is a term used to describe a group of chronic conditions affecting body movement and muscle coordination. It is caused by damage to one or more specific areas of the brain, usually occurring during fetal development; before, during, or shortly after birth; or during infancy. Thus, these disorders are not caused by problems [...]

Causes Of Cerebral Palsy

The most simple answer as to why a child is suffering from cerebral palsy is because they have suffered some form of damage to their brain. Normally such damage will have occurred before, during or after the child has been born. But in order to find out which kind of injury to the brain and [...]

Life Expectancy for Adults with Cerebral Palsy

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Doctors forlorn are not experts the life imagineancy for adults with cerebral palsy. Only a surgeon is capable to assess the individual, and only a statistician or actuary is capable to link the appraisal [...]

Types Of Cerebral Palsy In Children

For many parents today having their child diagnosed with suffering from cerebral palsy can be extremely devastating for all concerned. In this article, we take a look at what may be the causes of cerebral palsy in children and the ways in which it can possibly be treated.
Cerebral Palsy is in fact not a [...]

Cerebral Palsy Infant

When it comes to infant cerebral palsy, it may well take a number of years for the symptoms to present themselves and very rarely will they before the child has reached the age of 3. So actually being able to provide a diagnosis of cerebral palsy in infants before this age can be extremely difficult [...]

How To Avoid Cerebral Palsy in your Baby

Interested in knowing what are the causes of cerebral palsy or why this happen to a baby? How to resolve this kind of abnormality? Cerebral palsy is the result of brain damage that occur during the full development of baby’s brain in womb.
Some mothers do not know that they are pregnant they tend to [...]

Seven Types Of Treatments For Cerebral Palsy

At present there is no perfect treatment of cerebral palsy. However some treatment developed to reduce the severity of the cerebral palsy. There are many cases give positive results in the cerebral palsy. There are many therapies use to treat the cerebral palsy. It was notices that not all the therapies are applied on the [...]

Erb’s Palsy Lawsuits - An Overview with Case History

Currently, there are more Cerebral Palsy lawsuits in courts across America and in Europe than there are cases of Erb’s palsy, but some of the most recent successful birth injury cases have been coming from Erb’s Palsy litigation in which a child’s brachial paralysis, or arm paralysis, was preventable and the negligence of a physician [...]

Hypotonia - Symptoms and Causes of Hypotonia

Hypotonia is a condition of abnormally low muscle tone (the amount of tension or resistance to movement in a muscle), often involving reduced muscle strength. Hypotonia is not a specific medical disorder, but a potential manifestation of many different diseases and disorders that affect motor nerve control by the brain or muscle strength. Recognizing hypotonia, [...]

Erb’s Palsy Lawsuits - An Overview

Currently, there are more Cerebral Palsy lawsuits in courts across America and in Europe than there are cases of Erb’s palsy, but some of the most recent successful birth injury cases have been coming from Erb’s Palsy litigation in which a child’s brachial paralysis, or arm paralysis, was preventable and the negligence of a physician [...]